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The 1989 Royal Rumble was the second annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). After the inaugural event aired as a television special, the 1989 event aired on pay-per-view (PPV), thus becoming one of the WWF's original four annual PPV events, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which would become ...
The 2025 Royal Rumble will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, beginning at 3 p.m. ET. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Royal Rumble winners history: Full list of who won WWE event Show comments
Studd held a number of championships over his career, including the NWA American Heavyweight Championship, NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship, NWA Canadian heavyweight title and was the winner of the 1989 Royal Rumble. He was posthumously inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame in 1995 and the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2004.
In the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE), Duggan won the first Royal Rumble match in 1988. [6] In World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he was a United States Heavyweight Champion [ 7 ] and the final World Television Champion .
A 4-man Royal Rumble took place on the January 8, 2004 episode of SmackDown, when Paul Heyman pit Chris Benoit against the three members of the F.B.I. Benoit won the match. A 15-man Royal Rumble was held during the January 29, 2004 episode of SmackDown to crown a contender for Brock Lesnar's WWE Championship at No Way Out.
It centered on the Royal Rumble match, a modified battle royal in which participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time. Six matches were contested at the event, including one dark match. The main event was the 1990 Royal Rumble match, which was won by WWF Champion Hulk Hogan, who last eliminated Mr ...
The Royal Rumble match was created by wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson and the event was established by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). After the match was first tested at a house show in October 1987, [1] the first Royal Rumble event took place on January 24, 1988, and was broadcast live as a television special on the USA Network. [2]
Royal Rumble: Houston, Texas: Big John Studd won the Royal Rumble match by last eliminating Ted DiBiase [1] January 29 UWA: UWA 14th Anniversary Show: Naucalpan, Mexico: El Canek (c) defeated Konnan in a singles match for the UWA World Heavyweight Championship [2] February 16 WWF: Saturday Night's Main Event: Hershey, Pennsylvania: Hulk Hogan ...